Well, what the second law of thermodynamics predicts, assuming the Universe just keeps going, is the eventual
heat death of the Universe, where all energy ends up homogeneously distributed and no life would be possible. Although that's compatible with everything being here forever.
And that end state can be equivallent (it is mathematically) to the supposed void state pre bigbang and so it goes again.
One could also assume that time eventually ends, and therefore it's very likely that at every moment reality is at a state that won't ever happen again.
It's more about the nature of the momemts or time itself, not its progression, which one can associate a beginning and an end to it. It feels odd if one assumes that only this current moment exists and all else does not, and how big is this moment? ~0.01 sec completely defined by human awarness/processing speed? Planck time? Infinitely small? Are the moments continous or discrete? Now we're getting into Zeno's paradox which is at the heart of all these questions.
Or one could assume infinite time but a closed cycle of events, where instead of every possible state eventually happening infinite times, the same sequence of states happens over and over again, forever.
Yes that's kind of the point I was making, if we don't try to focus on the hows and whys, and just on the fact(?) that this moment and other moments exists, and maybe infinetly many other moments we're not aware of, then they all have a non-zero chance of existing and eventually will, infinitely many times.
I have to say that one time I read a small
book about probabilities and the author strictly warned about applying probabilities to metaphysical problems, my instinct is that he's right, so maybe I'm at the egde of exhuasting this thought and need something new soon haha.
I feel that is true about sharing thoughts in general, whenever things are brought outside they lose power, but that's ok, now there's free space for new stuff. This can also be good when sharing your fears and worries, they shrink to their true size after being blown up by your mind.
Or it could be modeled as a tree of universes, where the current branch splits up into two or more separate universes every time something like a quantum particle in state superposition collapses into a given state (it would collapse into a different state in every of those universes), or more interestingly every time a conscious being makes a decision: it would make a different decision in every of those universes, and the conscious awareness of "deciding" would just be choosing of what branch you want to keep being aware of and living in.
This point is the most relevant imo, the theories that push away the conscious observer are not so useful for that conscious observer. I mean what I care most about is how I perceive and feel my state of existence.
Nothing but a singularity of awareness satisfies my need to ask 'but what came before that'. Leading to acceptance that awareness just is and always was.
Terence Mckenna says that the scientific theory requires a singularity and they put it at the beginning before the bigbang. So we are all allowed a singularity, he put his at the end, the cosmic attractor. And this is your singularity fink.
